another evergreen containership runs aground, this time in Chesapeake bay near Baltimore

[Foreverslow]

not again.

Regular weather here on the bay this morning had low tides warnings..

 

[slug zitski]

Chesapeake  is shallow 

I’m surprised that those jumbo ships can enter Baltimore 

 

[ctutmark]

This one could be another mess. A friend at the Naval Academy told me about this early this morning. That channel is not very wide. 

 

[fastyacht]

Chesapeake  is shallow 

I’m surprised that those jumbo ships can enter Baltimore 

There is a dredged channel and charts fer Chrissakes.

 

[Snaggletooth]

Chesapeake  is shallow 

I’m surprised that those jumbo ships can enter Baltimore 

There is a dredged channel and charts fer Chrissakes.

Shrimpe cane reade charttes?  They our smarttere then moeste peopel?             

 

[bgytr]

There is a dredged channel and charts fer Chrissakes.

Ya but that stretch just east of Bodkin creek is damn tricky for a big ship.  Channel is very narrow, and if you are a smidge off in judging the turn you are in 15 feet of water immediately on the other side of the mark.

 

[AJ Oliver]

Container ships are getting bigger an bigger, 

requiring channels dredged to 50 feet, it was 40 feet not long ago. 

Deepening is a huge expense not borne by the shipping companies. 

 

[slap]

Maybe they should change the name of the company to "Everaground"

 

[silent bob]

Forgot to turn right at G15?!

 

[Dr. D]

Worst boat name: Runaground Sue

 

[kent_island_sailor]

There were tugs there earlier that left and they are still there. Medium-high tide is about 0600 and high-high tide is 1800, so maybe they decided to just sit in the mud until tomorrow.

 

[kent_island_sailor]

Chesapeake  is shallow 

I’m surprised that those jumbo ships can enter Baltimore 

They were in one of the 50 foot channels and now are in about 25 feet of water

 

[fastyacht]

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They were in one of the 50 foot channels and now are in about 25 feet of water

tehy fucked up

 

[fastyacht]

Ya but that stretch just east of Bodkin creek is damn tricky for a big ship.  Channel is very narrow, and if you are a smidge off in judging the turn you are in 15 feet of water immediately on the other side of the mark.

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I spy Otter Pond on that chart.

 

[AnotherSailor]

Ever Forward. That is exactly what they did!

Deepening is a huge expense not borne by the shipping companies. 

No, they want to be paid for using the dredged channels.

 

[slug zitski]

The authorities permitted the ship to enter 

a pilot was onboard the ship 

I suspect the the supply chain disaster in the west coasts ports has forced shippers to use secondary ports 

a small container ship draws 8 meters 

a medium , Panama. CAnal ship is 12 meters 

a jumbo pacific containership is 16 meters deep 

I don’t know the draught  of the grounded ship 

I’ll bet that they were max draught  for the  channel 

may chart says that channel is 9 meters deep

 

[fastyacht]

"Current draft" 13m

 

[Marcjsmith]

tehy fucked up

who,  the captain or the pilot.  I guess ultimately the captain has the end all responsibility,  but  presumably the pilots are there since they know the local waters...

Has evergreen become  the Swift trucking of the seas...

 

[slug zitski]

"Current draft" 13m

So this mean that the pilot needed to wiggle the ship down the channel 

since I don’t have the liturature I don’t know how ships transit that channel 

as you can see the channel as various depths 

in many shipping channels the literature states that “ fully laden ships use the wrong side of the channel “ 

This  is done to prevent the ship from grounding out when it turns 

perhaps the ship grounded in a turn